Definition of Gentiana acaulis

1. Noun. Low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers.

Exact synonyms: Gentianella
Generic synonyms: Gentian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentiana Acaulis

Genista raetam
Genista tinctoria
Genk
Gennari
Gennari's band
Gennari's stria
Genoa
Genoan
Genoans
Genoese
Genova
Genovese
Genseric
Gent
Gentiana
Gentiana acaulis (current term)
Gentiana andrewsii
Gentiana calycosa
Gentiana clausa
Gentiana crinita
Gentiana detonsa
Gentiana holopetala
Gentiana lutea
Gentiana pneumonanthe
Gentiana procera
Gentiana quinquefolia
Gentiana saponaria
Gentiana thermalis
Gentiana villosa
Gentianaceae

Literary usage of Gentiana acaulis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"And, as for the Gentiana " acaulis " of gardens, this, it is clear, has nothing to do with any form of any species at present known on any of the hills of ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Plants such as Gentiana acaulis, G. verna, Arnica montana which have decussate leaves in a basal leaf-rosette, are no exception. It FIG. 298. ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"The mean of thirty-nine readings on Gentiana acaulis shows this flower to be 2° warmer than that of grass, the greatest difference being 7°'9. ..."

4. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"... closely allied plant-organisms behave very differently as regards the chemical quality of their substratum. Thus, in Switzerland, Gentiana acaulis is ..."

5. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1868)
"GERMINATION OF Gentiana acaulis. would be a curious inquiry how many hundreds—shall we say thousands '?—of packets of seed of this popular perennial are ..."

6. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany. edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1848)
"Is Gentiana acaulis wild in England ? By HEWETT C. WATSON, Esq. MR. SIDEBOTHAM has greatly surprised me by stating that the Gentiana acaulis has been ..."

7. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"Seeds many. SPEC. CHAR. Flower solitary, five-cleft, bell-shaped, about as long as the quadrangular stalk. SYN. Gentiana acaulis. Linn. Sp. PI. 330. ..."

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